001:001 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

001:002 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations;

001:003 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

001:004 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect
and entire, wanting nothing.

001:005 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to
all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
him.

001:006 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and
tossed.

001:007 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of
the Lord.

001:008 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

001:009 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

001:010 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of
the grass he shall pass away.

001:011 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it
withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the
grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich
man fade away in his ways.

001:012 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is
tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
promised to them that love him.

001:013 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

001:014 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own
lust, and enticed.

001:015 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin,
when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

001:016 Do not err, my beloved brethren.

001:017 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning.

001:018 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we
should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

004:009 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned
to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

004:010 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift
you up.

004:011 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil
of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the
law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art
not a doer of the law, but a judge.

004:012 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who
art thou that judgest another?

004:013 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into
such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and
get gain:

004:014 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is
your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little
time, and then vanisheth away.

004:015 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and
do this, or that.

004:016 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is
evil.

004:017 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to
him it is sin.

005:003 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall
be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were
fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

005:004 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your
fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the
cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of
the Lord of sabaoth.

005:005 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye
have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

005:006 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist
you.

005:007 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the
earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the
early and latter rain.

005:008 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of
the Lord draweth nigh.

005:009 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be
condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

005:010 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name
of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of
patience.

005:011 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the
patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the
Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

005:012 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by
heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but
let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into
condemnation.

005:013 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let
him sing psalms.

005:014 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the
church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in
the name of the Lord:

005:015 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord
shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall
be forgiven him.

005:016 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another,
that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much.

005:017 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he
prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on
the earth by the space of three years and six months.

005:018 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth
brought forth her fruit.

005:019 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert
him;

005:020 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the
error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide
a multitude of sins.

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